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Monday, September 21, 2009

I am off to beautiful Cape Cod and will return on October 4th, with an armload of photographs and memories. When I return, this blog will be a colorful and joyful celebration of my favorite season. I can't wait to share it with you! You are all special and very much appreciated. Thank you for all of your kind comments, insights, and well-wishes.

Enjoy these first days of fall! May they be laden with all the simple treats which makes life good.

It began as a simple stroll with my mother and Kiki through our little village Gablitz; no great expectations, maybe a nice sunset shot.

But it turned out to be an impromptu treasure hunt. Here are images of the precious things we found:

...lovely buttery leaves...

...plump, glossy rosehips...

...mist and tranquility on the hillside...

...a community of tiny mushrooms...

...a perfect dining table for a fairy teaparty...

...and here, the little stools for them to sit on...

...an elegant, willowy mushroom, which I can imagine lights up in the night as a sort of street lamp for the fairies and elves...

...a street lamp and pathway for the humans, already strewn with fallen leaves...

...a stout apple tree, heavily laden with rosy fruit...

...the church, majestic in the glow of the setting sun...

...and here it is, the perfect moment...light piercing through the trees...everything peaceful and still...birds returning to their nests, and folks settling down around their dinner tables...another September day spent...and now we are one step closer to Fall.

I thought you might be interested in seeing how photography inspires me. I am not good at painting from memory or fantasy, but I do enjoy enhancing and changing the colors of real things in my paintings. Here is an example of a smoky pumpkin which I found beautiful and was immediately inspired to paint. You can see that I stayed true to form, but perked the colors up a little.